Arsenal have stepped up their preparations for the World Cup period as they consider what to do while club football pauses in November and December.
"It’s a completely unprecedented season, not only because we are going to be playing a lot of weeks with two or three games, but especially because we have the World Cup coming up," Mikel Arteta said when discussing the upcoming tournament in Qatar. "We don’t know how that’s going to affect us, so we have to look at the overall picture. The preparation and the organisation is being done in regards to that."
The Gunners are likely to have stars such as Bukayo Saka, Granit Xhaka and Takehiro Tomiyasu all take off with their countries during the break, but a considerable number of players will not be involved as well.
